Definitions for Fallow
ˈfæl oʊfal·low

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fallowadjective

   cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons

2. fallowadjective

   left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season

   "fallow farmland"

3. fallowadjective

   undeveloped but potentially useful

   "a fallow gold market"

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. FALLOWadjective

   Etymology: falewe, Saxon.

   1. Pale red, or pale yellow.

   How does your fallow greyhound, sir?
   I heard say, he was out-run at Cotsale. William Shakespeare.

   The king, who was excessively affected to hunting, had a great desire to make a great park for red as well as fallow deer between Richmond and Hampton-court. Edward Hyde.

   2. Unsowed; left to rest after the years of tillage. [Supposed to be so called from the colour of naked ground.]

   The ridges of the fallow field lay traversed, so as the English must cross them in presenting the charge. John Hayward.

   3. Plowed, but not sowed; plowed as prepared for a second aration.

   Her predecessors, in their course of government, did but sometimes cast up the ground; and so leaving it fallow, it became quickly overgrown with weeds. James Howell, Vocal Forrest.

   4. Unplowed; uncultivated.

   Her fallow lees
   The darnel, hemlock, and rank fumitory,
   Doth root upon. William Shakespeare, Henry V.

   5. Unoccupied; neglected.

   Shall saints in civil bloodshed wallow
   Of saints, and let the cause lie fallow. Hudibras, p. i. c. 2.

2. Fallownoun

   Etymology: from the adjective.

   1. Ground plowed in order to be plowed again.

   The plowing of fallows is a very great benefit to land. John Mortimer, Husbandry.

   They are the best ploughs to plow up Summer fallow with. John Mortimer, Husbandry.

   2. Ground lying at rest.

   Within an ancient forest’s ample verge,
   There stands a lonely but a healthful dwelling,
   Built for convenience, and the use of life;
   Around it fallows, meads, and pastures fair,
   A little garden, and a limpid brook,
   By nature’s own contrivance seems dispos’d. Nicholas Rowe, J. Shore.

3. To Fallowverb

   To plow in order to a second plowing.

   Begin to plow up fallows: this first fallowing ought to be very shallow. John Mortimer, Husbandry.

   But the ground ought to be well plowed and fallowed the Summer before. John Mortimer.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fallow

   Fallow is a farming technique in which arable land is left without sowing for one or more vegetative cycles. The goal of fallowing is to allow the land to recover and store organic matter while retaining moisture and disrupting pest life cycles and soil borne pathogens by temporarily removing their hosts. Crop rotation systems typically called for some of a farmer's fields to be left fallow each year.The increase in intensive farming, including the use of cover crops in lieu of fallow practices, has caused a loss of acreage of fallow land, as well as field margins, hedges, and wasteland. This has reduced biodiversity; fallows have been the primary habitat for farmland bird populations.

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1. fallow

   Fallow refers to a field of farmland that a farmer has left unplanted for a period of time in order to allow the soil to restore its fertility. It can also be used more broadly to describe anything that is unused or inactive.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fallowadjective

   pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound

2. Fallownoun

   left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground

3. Fallownoun

   plowed land

4. Fallownoun

   land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded; land plowed without being sowed for the season

5. Fallownoun

   the plowing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season; as, summer fallow, properly conducted, has ever been found a sure method of destroying weeds

6. Fallownoun

   to plow, harrow, and break up, as land, without seeding, for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects, and rendering it mellow; as, it is profitable to fallow cold, strong, clayey land

7. Etymology: [So called from the fallow, or somewhat yellow, color of naked ground; or perh. akin to E. felly, n., cf. MHG. valgen to plow up, OHG. felga felly, harrow.]

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1. Fallow

   Fallow is the debut album by The Weakerthans. It was released in 1997 on G7 Welcoming Committee Records in Canada, and in 1999 on Sub City Records in the United States. The songs "Letter of Resignation" and "Anchorless" were originally written for Propagandhi, the band which John K. Samson left to form the Weakerthans. "Letter of Resignation" appeared on the Propagandhi/F.Y.P. split 7" and "Anchorless" on the album Less Talk, More Rock. Epitaph Records, the band's current label, rereleased Fallow in Canada on November 6, 2007.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fallow

   fal′ō, adj. left untilled or unsowed for a time.—n. land that has lain a year or more untilled or unsown after having been ploughed.—v.t. to plough land without seeding it.—ns. Fall′owness, state of being fallow or untilled; Green fall′ow, fallow where land is cleaned by a green crop, as turnips. [Ety. dub.; prob. an assumed A.S. fealgian, that may be confounded with the following word, from the reddish colour of unsown land.]

2. Fallow

   fal′ō, adj. of a brownish-yellow colour.—ns. Fall′ow-chat, Fall′ow-finch, the wheatear or stonechat; Fall′ow-deer, a yellowish-brown deer smaller than the red-deer, with broad flat antlers. [A.S. falu; cf. Ger. fahl, Ice. folr.]

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. FALLOW

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Fallow is ranked #113155 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Fallow surname appeared 155 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Fallow.
   
   93.5% or 145 total occurrences were White.
   5.8% or 9 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

How to pronounce Fallow?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Fallow in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Fallow in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Fallow in a Sentence

1. Nirmala Sitharaman:

   A scheme to enable farmers to set up solar power generation capacity on their barren/fallow lands and to sell it to the grid would be operationalized.

2. David Beasley:

   If Ukrainian fields lie fallow this year, aid agencies such as ours will be forced to source new markets to compensate for the loss of some of the world's best wheat, doing so will come at a vastly inflated cost.

3. Phil Verleger:

   A lot of truckers just won't be able to operate, if you're a farmer, you may have to leave some acres fallow, or won't fertilize as much. The macroeconomists don't get this. It's going to come back and haunt us all.

4. J. W. Alexander:

   There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.

5. Tim Clark:

   I know they want to build (the A380neo) and they know we want to buy it in large numbers, but there are some fallow years where they have to address that problem.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Fallow
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Fallow
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallow
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Fallow
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Fallow
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Fallow
8. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html